Marlins LF Logan Morrison, on disabled list, might be done for season

Left fielder Logan Morrison was put on the 15-day disabled list with right knee inflammation.

Right-hander Ryan Webb was called up from Class AAA New Orleans.

Morrison, who had been 0-for-15 on the homestand, told The Palm Beach Post and Miami Herald there’s a chance he will have surgery on the knee before the season is over.
He had surgery on the knee Dec. 5 to repair a tear in his patella tendon. An MRI in May showed a new tear in the tendon from a suture, made in his Dec. 5 surgery, that had broke.

“From what I was told, there’s a suture that was made to keep the patella tendon together, and because I tried to ramp up activity so much it opened back up,” Morrison said.

When the MRI showed the tear in May, he said he and the team decided he’d try to play with it and have it corrected after the season.

For now the plan is to rest the knee for about 20 days. But manager Ozzie Guillen said he prefers to repair the knee as soon as possible so Morrison can be ready when spring training starts.

Guillen, speaking to The Post and the Herald, was critical about the Marlins for letting Morrison participate last November in an All Star tournament in Taiwan even though he’d had a history of issues with the knee during the 2011 season.

Morrison had tendinitis in the knee at least since May 2011. In August of 2011, he had five stitches to close a cut on the knee after he collided with Emilio Bonifacio in the outfield.

Then in September of that year, he slammed the knee against a wall in two separate games while chasing foul balls.

He said he felt some discomfort again while running in Taiwan during a major league series against the Chinese Taipei national team from Nov. 1-6.

“If you got some problem, I don’t want you to wait till (bleeping) February and do what you need. You get it done now and move on,” Guillen told The Post and Herald.

“In the past they did stupid (expletive) here. They let him go to Asia to play then have surgery knowing spring training is coming up. It ain’t going to happen again. We worry about more (expletive) off the field than we worry about what happens here.

“Right now what they say if they need time to recover from the old surgery. In my opinion, if this is something they need to get it done, why wait until October to do it?

“I’m not a doctor, I’m not a trainer, I’m not LoMo, but I think that’s best… Do it so you don’t have to deal with it every year. I worry about, those kids are 22, 23 years old, they walk like old ladies. I don’t know if they do the rehab the right way…

“I think the Miami Marlins are more important than the USA team or whatever he was doing… I’m not going to blame anyone, but think about it.”